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	Jack Valenti dies at 85 - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Valenti was a special assistant and close aide to President Lyndon Johnson when he was hired to head the movie industry association in 1966.
		Valenti had been a political consultant working in Texas for Johnson, then the vice president, and was in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated there.
		Jack Valenti suffered from a stroke in March and was hospitalized for several weeks in Baltimore.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2007-04-26-jack-valenti-obit_N.htm?csp=34 (694 words)

	Film Lobbyist Jack Valenti Dies at 85 - Examiner.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Valenti, president emeritus of the Motion Picture Association of America, places his cowboy boot footprints in cement during ceremonies honoring him at the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in this, Dec. 6, 2004, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
		Valenti was a passionate envoy, deflecting criticism of Hollywood with wit and humility, fostering its interests overseas and fiercely combating threats to the industry such as film piracy.
		Valenti's ratings system "enabled the industry to give parents the information they need to make appropriate decisions for their children while at the same time eliminating the possibility of government censorship from the content of the movies," said John Fithian, who heads the National Association of Theatre Owners.
	www.examiner.com /a-698041~Film_Lobbyist_Jack_Valenti_Dies_at_85.html (1508 words)

	Jack Valenti, Architect of the MPAA Movie Rating System, Dies At 85 - Consumerist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Valenti, the former president of the MPAA and architect of the controversial movie ratings system, died today from complications following a stroke.
		Valenti was a special assistant and confidant to President Lyndon Johnson when he was lured to Hollywood in 1966 by movie moguls Lew Wasserman and Arthur Krim.
		Valenti's movie ratings system has drawn a fair amount of criticism in the past few years, and was recently examined in the documentary "This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated," which chronicles the filmmaker's attempts to expose the methodology behind the secret ratings board (with varying degrees of success).
	consumerist.com /consumer/mpaa/jack-valenti-architect-of-the-mpaa-movie-rating-system-dies-at-85-255721.php (1041 words)

	Jack Joseph Valenti Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Valenti says his grandfather's leadership was his first introduction to politics, and he proudly speaks of the fact that upon his grandfather's death the Houston Chronicle listed Captain James A. Baker, grandfather of Jim Baker, as one of the honorary pallbearers.
		As Jack Valenti rode in the president's motorcade toward Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, the excitement of being recruited as a member of the vice president's staff turned to shock and bewilderment, when President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
		Valenti suffered a defeat during the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations when the French refused to relax import limits on U.S.-made films and television programs on grounds that its cultural identity was at stake.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jack-joseph-valenti (1447 words)

	Jack Valenti Testimony at 1982 House Hearing on Home Recording of Copyrighted Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Valenti did bring up that there is a high risk factor in the fact that 8 out of 10 films might not make their money back and get out of the red in the first period of release, which is the theatrical division.
		Valenti say that the fees prospectively that might be charged will not, in fact, affect the purchase of either tapes or sets because the market range for the sale of these is so disparate as to make -- not make it inevitable that the cost be passed on accordingly therefore.
		Valenti when we began to understand what we face in the future and we asked if we could be part of this panel because we have a great fear for these thousands of people that we represent.
	cryptome.org /hrcw-hear.htm (20358 words)

	Jack Valenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Valenti is a Texas born son of Sicilian immigrants.
		Valenti is similar to a cat in that he has lived nine lives; he has worked as an advertising agent, political consultant and then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association.
		Valenti's advertisement agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas.
	mason.gmu.edu /~lwalker9/jackvalenti.html (181 words)

	The MPAA's Jack Valenti
		Valenti was in the motorcade when President Kennedy was assassinated and on the plane back to Washington with the new president, Johnson, who offered Valenti a job as his special assistant.
		Valenti was a heartbeat away from Johnson during the three turbulent years that saw the escalation of the Vietnam War and the battle to pass Civil Rights legislation.
		Valenti is tireless in his lobbying efforts to the U.S. Congress and in his travels, as he defends and promotes the Hollywood studios.
	www.worldscreen.com /print.php?filename=203valenti.txt (3267 words)

	Jack Valenti
		Jack Valenti was "special assistant" to Lyndon Johnson's White House.
		In 1966, he resigned and became the president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
		Interview with Valenti (http://www.hpronline.org/news/347207.html?mkey=628413) - conducted in December 2002 by Derek Slater.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jack_Valenti.html (167 words)

	Jack Valenti, film lobbyist and former White House aide, dies at 85 - Movies - NY Daily News
		Valenti had a stroke in March and was hospitalized for several weeks at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore.
		Valenti became known for his loyalty, likening Johnson to Lincoln for his civil rights efforts and declaring, to widespread ridicule, "I sleep each night a little better" knowing Johnson was in charge.
		Valenti was always quick to rebut critics, saying frequent MPAA surveys found that parents with young children felt the ratings system was a helpful guide.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/movies/2007/04/26/2007-04-26_jack_valenti_film_lobbyist_and_former_wh.html (1215 words)

	MPAA v. 2600 - Jack Valenti Deposition
		Valenti to 2 David Carson, a lawyer at the general counsel of 3 an organization named in the letter.
		Valenti is a signatory -- 6 pardon me -- to which the Motion Picture 7 Association of America is a signatory as of March 8 30, 2000, when Mr.
		Valenti back 2 for further needless imposition on his time in 3 order to seek further deposition from him at any 4 point.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /openlaw/dvd/NY/depositions/valenti.html (11841 words)

	Movies in the Digital Age with Jack Valenti
		Recalling Valenti's service as a special advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Doherty described him as "an eyewitness to, and participant in, more than his share of history." The organization that became the MPAA was established in 1922, Doherty said.
		Valenti believes there is something substantive about creative property, such as a poem or movie, that makes it just real as physical property; and that it ought to have the same rights and privileges.
		Valenti's agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Texas.
	web.mit.edu /comm-forum/forums/valenti.html (3437 words)

	Jack Valenti Remembered - Slice of Scifi
		Jack Valenti, a Hollywood pioneer, a highly decorated WWII bomber pilot, a former White House aide to President Lyndon Johnson, a film industry lobbyist and the one man crusader who instituted the modern movie ratings system is dead at 85 from complications of a stroke he suffered nearly a month ago.
		Valenti was also responsible for guiding the entertainment industry away from it’s late 1920’s to early 1960’s censorship era to something that is now taken for granted — MPAA Ratings and the digital age.
		Valenti, due to his years in Washington and also his lobbyist activities on behalf of the industry he loved, was not only very familiar with members from both sides of the political aisle, but was also comfortable with such diametrically opposing political forces from the left and right.
	www.sliceofscifi.com /2007/04/27/jack-valenti-remembered (908 words)

	Jack Valenti's bio
		Jack Valenti's proven achievements as a leader in the movie industry and his outstanding vision have earned him a prominent place in Hollywood's history.
		Valenti was the youngest high school graduate in the city, graduating at age 15.
		Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
	www.celebritybazar.com /jack_valenti (478 words)

	Jack Valenti News
		Jack Valenti is one of the contributors, so be prepared for some smokin', cutting edge commentary,...
		Jack Valenti, who headed up the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly 39 years, praises the book " Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation," suggesting that entertainment executives...
		I spotted Jack Valenti, who headed the MPAA for nearly 39 years before stepping down last year, at a lunch table at the Aspen Institute in mid-August 2006 and whipped out my cell phone to conduct a video...
	www.topix.net /who/jack-valenti (703 words)

	Jack Valenti suffers stroke - Boston.com
		Valenti is the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, where he devised the ratings system for films.
		Valenti retired from the MPAA in 2004 and was succeeded by Dan Glickman, a former Kansas lawmaker and agriculture secretary under President Clinton.
		Valenti was whisked aboard Air Force One for Johnson's famous flight back to Washington, and was drafted as a special assistant to the new president.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2007/03/27/jack_valenti_suffers_stroke (380 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Jack Valenti's Long Goodbye
		Jack Valenti, who has represented Hollywood in Washington for nearly four decades, took another step in his long goodbye yesterday, telling movie theater owners that he will retire within the next few months.
		Valenti's admirers said he used his often flowery oratory and consensus-building skills honed in the Johnson White House to bring together studio heads, who often would like nothing better than to see their rivals, and their movies, fail.
		Valenti's most notable accomplishment was the 1968 institution of the movie rating system, in which a film is given a G, PG, PG-13 or R rating based on its content.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18981-2004Mar23?language=printer (658 words)

	The Blog \| Hilary Rosen: Jack Valenti -- A Democrat's Tribute on Debate Night \| The Huffington Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack suffered stroke a few weeks ago and in the last few days we sadly knew the end was near.
		Jack was sometimes faulted for seeing rosey scenarios where they didn't exist in order to keep life graceful.
		Jack and a lot of other Hollywood companies gave money to Lamar Smith's PAC along with people like Newscorp executives and 10,000 dollars of that got funnelled to Tom Delay and his PAC and legal defense fund.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /hilary-rosen/jack-valenti-a-democra_b_46993.html (832 words)

	cbs5.com - Film Industry Pioneer Jack Valenti Dead At 85
		Valenti was a special assistant and confidant to President Lyndon Johnson when he was lured to Hollywood in 1966 by movie moguls Lew Wasserman and Arthur Krim.
		Valenti became known for his loyalty, likening Johnson to Lincoln for his civil rights efforts and declaring, to widespread ridicule, "I sleep each night a little better" knowing Johnson was in charge.
		Valenti was always quick to rebut critics, saying frequent MPAA surveys found that parents with young children felt the ratings system was a helpful guide.
	cbs5.com /national/topstories_story_116185537.html (1392 words)

	Jack Valenti to present Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture
		Jack Valenti, president and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), will visit Duke Law School on Monday, Feb. 24 to present the third annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property.
		A former aide to U.S. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Valenti was appointed chief executive of the movie industry's trade association in 1966 and has led the group ever since, turning it into one of the most powerful forces on Capitol Hill.
		Valenti, who holds an MBA from Harvard University, is the author of four books - three non-fiction works and the political novel Protect and Defend - and numerous essays for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek and other publications.
	www.law.duke.edu /features/news_valenti.html (350 words)

	Jack Valenti Announces Resignation After 38 Years as Head of MPAA/MPA
		The goal of the Valenti plan was to give advance cautionary warnings to parents by rating each film so that parents could make their own decisions about what movies they wanted their children to see or not to see.
		With the introduction of analog videocassettes in the late 1970's, contrary to some critics, Valenti never advocated any abolition of recording devices, rather he advocated a small levy on all blank videocassettes to be returned to copyright owners for partial compensation for theft of their films.
		Valenti takes personal pride in his efforts to establish what he calls "a rapport with the American creative community," which includes the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-01-2004/0002203711&EDATE= (1823 words)

	Jack Valenti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valenti was born in Houston, Texas, on September 5, 1921.
		Valenti's agency was in charge of the press during the November 1963 visit of President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon Johnson to Dallas, Texas.
		Jack Valenti was featured "Ripley's Believe it or Not" getting his hair cut with fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Valenti (876 words)

	Dialogue with Jack Valenti
		Valenti: No. All of the companies were violently opposed to a classification system.
		Valenti: I'm not saying it hasn't been changed, but the way it works is still largely the same.
		Valenti: I read an ad in the trades that was signed by some of people I consider to be good friends, people I respect in the business, and I started to wonder if there wasn't another way.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2019843 (1545 words)

	Film Lobbyist Jack Valenti, 85, Dies - Examiner.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Former Hollywood lobbyist and presidential adviser Jack Valenti is interviewed by The Associated Press in Washington on Nov. 19, 2003.
		LOS ANGELES (Map, News) - Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday.
		"Jack was a showman, a gentleman, an orator, and a passionate champion of this country, its movies, and the enduring freedoms that made both so important to this world," Glickman said in a statement.
	www.examiner.com /a-697337~Film_Lobbyist_Jack_Valenti__85__Dies.html?cid=rss-US (1474 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Jack Valenti, film lobbyist and ex-White House aide, dies at 85
		LOS ANGELES – Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday.
		The ratings system Valenti devised “enabled the industry to give parents the information they need to make appropriate decisions for their children while at the same time eliminating the possibility of government censorship from the content of the movies,” Fithian said.
		“Jack Valenti was a true leader and gentleman whose wit, fire and passion for our business inspired everyone regardless of politics or opinion, background or belief,” Barry Meyer, chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Bros., said in a statement.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20070426-1704-ca-obit-valenti.html (1372 words)

	- rogues gallery - jack valenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Valenti was a close aide to President Lyndon Johnson from 1963-1966, (during the time that our Vietnam involvement was expanding exponentially) and one of only two special assistants to U.S. presidents who have lived in the White House -- the other being FDR special assistant Harry Hopkins.
		Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and he was ready for a rhetorical rumble.
		If Jack Valenti had his way back then (he almost did as the Sony BetaMax case went all the way to the Supreme Court) we wouldn't have VCRs today, Blockbuster wouldn't exist and 50% of Hollywoods income wouldn't exist.
	www.boycott-riaa.com /rogues/jvalenti (257 words)

	Jack Valenti
		Jack Valenti steps down from his power position at the Motion Picture Association of America and has named Dan Glickman as his successor.
		Valenti’s agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas.
		Valenti was in the motorcade (six cars back of the President) in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
	www.filmfestivals.com /servlet/JSCRun?CfgPath=ffc/media&Cfg=video.cfg&obj=ShowVideo&medi_id=407 (460 words)

	Newsvine - Jack Valenti Leaves Baltimore Hospital
		Valenti, 85, who had been at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center since March, checked out Tuesday, Hopkins spokesman Eric Vohr said.
		Valenti's office in Washington referred questions to the Motion Picture Association of America, the trade group he headed for 38 years until retiring in 2004.
		Valenti is the former president of the MPAA, where he devised the ratings system for films.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2007/04/25/682895-jack-valenti-leaves-baltimore-hospital (158 words)

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